Some web sites are for fun, but many sites are just darn useful. This show looked at several practical web sites including when.com, learn2.com, instant-delivery.com, edmunds.com, and alexa.com. Featured guests include Brewster Kahle, co-founder of Alexa and founder of the Internet Archive. Hosts are Rebecca Eisenberg, Andrew deVries, and Stewart Cheifet. Originally broadcast in 1999 from the Club I internet cafe in San Francisco.


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<p><a href="http://www.when.com"><b>When.com</b></a><br> One popular trend right now is to offer online calendar services. Most offer online personal planners, but When.com takes full advantage of the Web's powers of inter-connection to link your diary with events in the real and virtual worlds that are likely to interest you most.</p> <p><a href="http://www.learn2.com"><b>Learn2.com</b></a><br> The simplicity and concept behind Learn2.com has made it one of the best know and most admired of the useful sites online. The idea behind Learn2.com is to offer brief, illustrated tutorials on how to do things. Each "2torial" is written with great detail an humorously illustrated and laid out in a series of easy to follow steps.</p> <p><a href="http://www.instant-delivery.com"><b>HP Instant Delivery</b></a><br> The idea that we might one day print our daily newspaper from the Internet is one that has been with us since the Net's early days. Now Hewlett-Packard's Instant Delivery has made deals with a huge variety of content providers to offer special printer-ready digests of their material.</p> <p><a href="http://www.edmunds.com"><b>Edmunds.com</b></a><br> The Web is the perfect environment for getting information about buying a car. Search functions and the ability to specify options means that you can quickly get a clear idea of a base price for a vehicle. As one of the giants in auto information, the Edmunds Buyers Guides' Web site provides the quality of free information such as pricing, car reviews, safety, and financing, as well as a used vehicle "lemon" check.</p> <p><a href="http://www.alexa.com"><b>Alexa Internet</b></a><br> As people get more sophisticated in their Web use, and as the Web gets to be an ever more complicated jungle of sites, services that help you make your way online are becoming ever more useful. One particulary useful service works in the form of an addition to your browser and offers you an assortment of useful information about whichever site you happen to be visiting. Alexa Internet lets you know who owns the site, how often the site is visited and how fresh the content is. It also provides you how it has been rated by groups and offers related links that may be of interest.</p>